31st Annual Cranberry Harvest Festival in Grayland this weekend
The 31st Annual Cranberry Harvest Festival in Grayland takes place Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12-13, at the Historic Grayland Community Hall.
The Westport/Grayland Chamber of Commerce, Grays Harbor Tourism, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. and the WA State Cranberry Alliance are once again sponsoring a weekend of food, fun and an opportunity to experience actual cranberry harvesting up close and personal on one of the Saturday guided bog tours.
Visit the many booths located indoors and outdoors on the grounds of the Historic Grayland Community Hall. Featuring everything from locally grown cranberries, to woodworking, metal art, handmade crafts and Cranberry Salad dressing and so much more.
Live action harvesting will take place on Saturday only. Board the bus for a trip through the bogs, stopping for a guided tour and ending with a visit to the Cranberry Museum.
A Cranberry Eating Contest is Sunday. See how many berries you can eat.
The Firefly Parade begins at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday evening. You can enter a brightly lit float or just enjoy it from the roadside as the parade leaves from the Community Hall and goes down state Route 105 to the fire station.
For event and accommodation information, call the Westport/Grayland Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Information Center at 360-268-9422 or visit the website at www.cometowestport.com.
Driftwood Players present ‘The Play That Goes Wrong!’
The Driftwood Players present the, “The Play That Goes Wrong!”
This show is side-splitting start to finish.
The play is written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, and directed by Brad Duffy, with mentor director Ryan Colburn.
The story: It’s opening night of the Cornley Polytechnic University Drama Society’s newest production, “The Murder at Haversham Manor,” where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. The Drama Society sets out to open their run of this 1920s whodunnit, but everything you never wanted in a show — an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines) — starts to ensue. Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds, poison, and peril to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences.
Performance Dates:
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Oct. 11, 12, 13
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Oct. 18, 19, 20
Friday and Saturday curtain time: 7:30 p.m.
Sunday matinee curtain time: 1:30 p.m.
Buy tickets at the door or online at:
Ticket outlets:
Valu Drug in Montesano
The Tinderbox in Aberdeen
Harbor Drug in Hoquiam
The Dusty Trunk in Ocean Shores
Enjoy the Snowbird Farm & Cidery Harvest Festival on Saturday
The Snowbird Farm & Cidery Harvest Festival in Montesano is from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at the 484 Old Monte Brady Road.
Join them at the farm to celebrate fall and National Cider Month with a Harvest Festival, with games, free smores and hot cocoa, candy hay scramble (candy resupplied each hour), chicken poo bingo ($3 tickets per number, 5 for $10; prizes for winning numbers), photo booth, pumpkin carving contest, chicken street tacos available from Country Mama’s Kitchen, The Salmonberry Band (a ukulele and other portable instruments group) and more.
Oyhut Bay Pumpkin Patch takes place every Saturday
Every Saturday in October from noon to 3 p.m., the Oyhut Bay Seaside Village in Ocean Shores offers a free visit to the pumpkin patch
Brenda the Good Witch will be there to read Halloween stories at 1 p.m. With a free pumpkin, cider and cookies for your little pumpkin.
Chapman Farms offers plenty of fall cheer
Chapman Farms has pumpkins in all shapes, colors, and sizes, sweet corn, squash, gourds, sunflowers, select fruits and vegetables, a corn maze, an indoor hay maze, an outdoor straw maze, and so much more.
Every weekend in October they will have live music performed by Chris Guenther, food vendors, a coffee stand and hay rides for a fun experience the whole family will enjoy. Chapman farms is located at 239 Brady Loop Rd E, Montesano.
McCleary VFW Fall Fest takes place Saturday
Come on out and join the McCleary VFW for their 2nd Annual Fall Fest. There will be free kids’ crafts, a fun picture area, plus 20 vendors for you to shop from. Stop on by Saturday Oct. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to get some great gifts and win some raffle prizes.All vendor fees and raffle proceeds will go toward helping the McCleary VFW maintain their building. The McCleary VFW is located at 158 N Summit Road.
